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January 11, 2010

leafing through the notebooks

"Always keep a notebook*", my tutor, Ray Fields, said to me, in his pokey office on the second floor of the Myrtle Street building at Liverpool Art College, so that in a flat moment, or times of low creativity you can look through your notebook and be inspired. And sound advice it was too. Not that I'm low on creativity at the moment, but it's good to look through old notebooks. This is the sort of thing you find:

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*he called them notebooks as opposed to sketchbooks as he felt sketch carries with it connotations of a rather slap-dash approach to drawing

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some of said notebooks

Posted by john at January 11, 2010 08:00 PM

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